A Simple Valentine's Card

Hi there, Bridget here with another project for January. Can you feel the love? It’s almost Valentine’s Day and unlike Christmas,  I want to be ready with cards for all my loved ones. So, today I have made an easy Valentine’s Day that lends itself to “mass production”.

I wanted to move away from the traditional white & red for my card so I went with this softer colour pallet. The products I used for this card are not actually love themed at all but worked perfectly once they were all put together. I have some items from the Ooh La La collection as well as from the Be Merry Collection.

To start off with, score and fold your card base.

Cut Lilac Cardstock 4” x 5 5/8” & Twinkle Paper 3 7/8” x 5 ½”. Adhere the layers together and stick it to the front of the card.

Glue down one of the Ooh La La heart doilies in the center of the card front.

Out of pink cardstock cut the heart border piece from the Art Deco Border set. Trim it down to fit across the center of the card. 

Cut a piece of silver glitter paper ½” x 4” and adhere over the die cut.

Cut another piece of Lilac Cardstock 2 ¼” x 3” & Twinkle Paper 2 1/8” x 2 7/8” Place this in the center of the front of the card.

Hand cut a few hearts out of shades of pink, silver glitter and lilac. If you have any punches or dies with hearts use those. Emboss them using the folders from the gorgeous Ooh La La range.

 Using our 3D foam tape arrange the hearts within the rectangle on the front of the card.

Lastly, find a Valentine’s Day stamp in your stamp, stamp it on a piece of vellum ¾” wide and heat emboss it using our amazing embossing powders. 

Tuck the edges of the vellum around the front panel. Quick and easy your card is done.

I hope you all have a beautiful Australia Day coming up soon and I will be back soon with another Design Team Project. Looking forward to seeing you all at Creative Inspiration Live next month. If you haven’t booked your spot, get moving.

Hugs

Bridget

Products Used:

AD90019 A5 Card White 50 pack

ULT157568 Art Deco Border Set

C0724915 Twinkle Paper

C0725346 Silver Glitter Paper

ULT157630 Paper Doily Hearts

ULT157586 Zephyr Flourish Embossing Folder

ULT157585 Juniper Embossing Folder

CO724824 Couture Creations Go Cut & Emboss machine

CO721957 - Self Healing Cutting Mats

CO724037 - Turbo Precision Glue Pen

Wild & Free Canvas

Hello fellow crafters & welcome to 2017. I hope this year is going to be an incredible one for you. We are all very excited for our amazing event next month. If you have not yet booked into the Creative Inspiration Live event, do so quickly. BOTH events are almost sold out.

Today I have made an 8x8 canvas to showcase 2 beautiful photos taken by my son at a zoo back in South Africa. I had to pair the photos with the stunning Wild & Free range.

The layout I did on the canvas is very simple as I wanted to showcase the amazing papers.

I painted the edges and a border using black acrylic paint. I cut a piece of the zebra papers 7 ¾” x 7 ¾” and stuck it down.

The blue feathered paper measures 6” x 5” & the leopard print is 6 ¼” x 3”. Stick them both down. I used one of the borders from the ephemera pack below the leopard print. 

The title is popped up on some 3d foam and is also from the ephemera pack.

Next I die cut some of the elements from Wild & Free, the frame and the giraffes (codes listed below).

I cut a fishtail from the tree paper and mounted it on some black cardstock leaving a small border around it. I added a few rhinestones on it.

 Mount your photos on some black cardstock and glue down all your elements.

Lastly, I stuck one of the round stickers from the sticker sheet, included in the collection, onto a metal filigree embellishment, stuck it down with some 3d foam and added some hessian twine to the top.

Super quick & easy. Wild & Free, the most wonderful range to play with and showcase your safari or wild life adventure phots with.

Thank you for joining me today..I hope to see you all at Creative Inspiration Live in February 2017.

Happy Crafting!!!

Products Used

CO724811 Ekene Tree & Frame Die

CO724819 Tower of Giraffes Die

CO724852 Wild & Free Collection Pack

CO724904 Ephemera Die Cut Pack

CO721962 Couture Creations Foam Tape, 6mm

CO721985 Couture Creations Double Sided Tape, 6mm

Be Merry Layout for Children

Hello fellow paper artists, its Bridget here with another Design Team project using the Be Merry range from Couture Creations. 

As the school holidays are upon us, it can be a little tricky keeping the children occupied. 

For my project I have created a super easy layout that the children can make using your Christmas photos. 

I am going to apologize upfront. My camera decided to go on strike so there aren't too many photos as they came out really fuzzy. 

The measurements for all the pieces are as follows (from the bottom layer up): 

Background polka dot - 12" x 12" 

Charcoal paper with reindeer & presents - 3 3/8" x 12" 

Multi Colour stripe paper - 8 1/8" x 8 1/2" 

Cream paper with large stars - 3 1/2" x 8 3/4" 

Charcoal with multi colour starts - 6 3/4" x 7" 

Once you have cut all the pieces glue them down as per the photo of the layout. 

You will need 3 photos for this layout. (1) 4" x 4" & (2) 3" x 3". 

Mat them if desired and place onto the layout. 

To make the rosette cut a piece of paper 1 1/2" x 12". Score every 1/4" using a score board or scoring tool.

With a 1 1/2" circle punch, cut one out of leftover pattern paper as the backing to glue your rosette to and one out of the Cyan glitter cardstock. 

Glue the two ends of the strip together, press it flat to "fan out" the rosette. 

Apply some hot glue to your backing paper rosette and place your rosette on top..hold in place until the glue has dried. 

Now glue your glitter circle on top, add the snowflake from the ephemera pack on top and adorn with a purple rhinestone from the Gemstones pack. 

Decorate the gift border strip from the ephemera pack with Glitzin Glamour glitter glue as well as more rhinestones. 

Die cut the Merry Christmas die from Seasons Greetings collection twice, once from Cyan glitter cardstock and once from a piece of charcoal paper from the Be Merry paper pad..this is the bottom shadow layer. 

Glue them on top of each other, keeping a slight offset. Place at the bottom of the layout. 

Choose 3 tags from the Mini Tag set and tuck those under the photo.

 

Products Used 

CO724920 Be Merry Bright 12x12 Paper Pad 

CO724922 Be Merry Bright Ephemera pack 

CO724923 Be Merry Bright Mini Gift Tags 

CO724927 Premium Adhesive Duo Gems Be Merry & Bright 

ULT157683 Merry Christmas Swirls Die 

Tools used

CO724824- Go Cut & Emboss machine 

CO721957 - Self Healing Cutting Mats 

CO724037 - Turbo Precision Glue Pen

There you go, super quick & easy. And it should keep the kiddies busy for a little while. 

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 

Be Merry Gift Bag

Hello everyone, Bridget here for this months Design Team blog post. Well, my first question is WHERE has 2016 gone? My second is, are you ready for Christmas? I am not..yet but decided to make this gift bag to kick start off my silly season. 

I used a few sheets of the Be Merry Classic papers from the 12x12 pad, some items from the ephemera pack and some of the beautiful silver flowers from the range.

Right, let's jump right into it..

Take 2 sheets of the same 12x12 paper from the Be Merry Classic paper pad

Trim away the top strip

Score 2” from the top and then at 3” from the outside edge of the remaining 3 sides.

Fold over the 2” strip and apply some tape runner underneath to hold the flap down

Fold all 3 remaining sides to get a nice crease. Cut away the 3”x3” squares at the bottom of one of your pieces. On the other piece use your scissors to cut a line from the bottom of the paper to where the horizontal 3” score line meets.

Apply glue to the 2 flaps you have created and stick them down to create the one side of your gift back. Glue the bottom flap from the other piece to the inside of this half of your gift bag. 

Apply some wet glue to each of the 2 sides on one of the pieces and glue the sides together.

Once the base of your bag is assembled punch 2 small holes for the ribbon handles.

In the Ephemera pack you will find the star I have used as a gift tag. Punch a hole in it. 

Cut 2 pieces of matching ribbon, each piece needs to be 12” long.

Feed the ribbon through the tag then through the holes in the gift bag, making knots on either sides to secure.

For the Christmas tree, cut 4 pieces of patterned paper of your choice. 6cm, 8cm, 10cm & 12cm.

Fold the patterned paper as per the photo below. Once you have it in a Triangle shape fold two of the sides towards the centre. 

Glue each layer inside the previous one, starting from the smallest layer to the largest, allowing equal spacing between each layer.

Under the tree I have created a small “pot” out of paper for the tree to stand in and have added the Merry Christmas tag from the Ephemera pack. Adhere to the gift bag using 3D foam tape. I added some of the silver bouquets to the top of the tree to act as the star.

 Thank you so much for looking..hope you all have a great crafting day. Hugs, Bridget

Products Used:

CO724911 Be Merry Classic 12x12 pad

CO724913 Be Merry Ephemera

CO724918 Gold & Silver Bouquets

Tools used:

CO721957 - Self Healing Cutting Mats

CO724037 - Turbo Precision Glue Pen

Ornamental Affair Wedding Layout

Hello everyone, it's Bridget here again with my November Design Team post.

I had a chance to play with some of the beautiful dies from the new Ornamental Affair Collection. This range of dies is so delicate and elegant. I had to make something pretty with it and decided to do a layout using some photos from a dear friend's recent wedding. 

I chose to use plain white cardstock from Ultimate Crafts and create patterns & textures just using the dies. 

I started off die cutting a whole bunch of Japer Doilies and stuck them around the page as a border.

Once the glue had dried I flipped the page over and trimmed off the bits that were hanging over the edge.

I used 3 of my favourite photos and matted them using white and a soft grey cardstock just to create a bit of contrast.

The English Rose flowers needed a bit of "bling" so I made a mist using the Anna Griffin Pigment Powders, mixed with some water and painted on the flowers. 

 Next I cut a whole lot of the delicate tiny butterflies from the Floral Silhouettes die from the Backgrounds Gallery 2 Collection. These I glued just behind the body to allow me to bend up the wings for some dimension.

All that was left for me to do was add the title, glue down my now dried English Roses and punch some leaves out of the same cardstock to finish off my all white wedding layout.

This one is super easy and quick to make thanks to the beautiful dies from Artdeco Creations.

Below are some more pictures of the layout.

Thank you so much for looking..hope you all have a great crafting day. Hugs, Bridget

Products Used:

ULT157549 Floral Silhouettes Die

CO724726 Jasper Doily Die

CO724866 Anna Griffin Mix & Match pigments

CO724288A English Roses 

ULT200001 Snow White Cardstock

CO724633 Snow White 3mm Pearls

Tools used:

CO724824- Go Cut & Emboss machine

CO721957 - Self Healing Cutting Mats

CO724037 - Turbo Precision Glue Pen